Combined tabulator and summary punch



March 18, 1952 F. A. SHULTZ ET AL 2,590,047

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ATTORNFY Patented Mar. 18, 1952 COMBINED TABULATOR AND SUMMARY PUNCH Frederick A. Shultz, Herkimer, Floyd 0. Gressel, Ilion, and Oscar J. Hobb, Little Falls, N. Y., and Gustav H. Kroeger, Cincinnati, Ohio, assignors to Remington Rand Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Application August 23, 1950, Serial No. 181,058

32 Claims.

This invention relates to a combined summary punch and tabulator, although some or its features are applicable to other types of statistical or accounting machines. The invention is shown as applied to a combined summary punch and tabulator such as that disclosed in the patent to Frank A. Lopez, No. 2,512,865 dated June 2'7, 1950, the patent to John Mueller, No. 2,580,693, issued January 1, 1952, and as so applied, consists chiefly in improvements on and additions to that machine.

The primary purpose of a combined summary punch and ta-bulator is to provide a punched card record of each total and/or grand total ac cumulated in the tabulator. To identify the total or grand total certain designatory information is also punched in each card.

In the combined summary punch and tabulator to which the present invention i shown applied, the total and grand total are printed from certain type bars on total and grand total cycles, respectively, and the designation usually is printed from other type bars on the first cycle following the total or grand total cycle as the case may be. The information to be punched is set up in normally locked gag bars, from which it is transferred to lockable set pins which, at the appropriate time, push punches through a card. One group of gag bars is utilized for the total and the grand total and another group for the designations.

In general, the object of the invention is to improve the punch set up means and the gag bar releasing means, and to provide novel punch storage means and also means for synchronizing the operations of the punch and the tabulator.

More articularly, one object of the invention is the provision of simplified and more durable means under control of the tabulator type bars for accurately locating the gag bars in their set positions. This means includes step sectors set in accordance with the advance of the type cars and against which the gag bars limit.

Another object of the invention is the provision of settable means associated with each step sector for preventing the setting of the associated gag bar to zero position. This means consists of an interponcnt mounted on the step sector and settable to block advance of the gag bar when the step sector is in zero position.

' Another object of the invention is the pro vision of novel means for storing data set up on the gag bars on one cycle until a, later cycle on which said data is to be punched in card, or

until a still later cycle to permit of punching the data in a plurality of cards. This means consists of a plurality of normally disabled retract bars each for unlocking selected ones of the set pins, and means controlled by the tabulator for enabling and operating sai bars selectively.

A further object of the invention is the provision of means set into operation on one cycle of the punch for controlling the release of the gag bars appropriate to the designation, only on that later cycle during which the designation is printed in the tabulator. This means includes an interponent through which the releasing means is actuated, a latch normally holding the interponent in ineffective position but tripped under control of the tabulator, other means controlled hy the tabulator for temporarily restoring the interponent to ineffective position, and timed means to actuate the releasing means through said interponent.

Still further object of the invention is the provision of means for stopping both machines in the event that they become dissynchronized in their operation. This means includes a memoer operable to stop bo h machines, and a timed actuator in each machine, one to operate said member and the other to prevent operation of the member.

Other objects and structural details of the invention will be apparent from the following description when read in connection with thesecompanying drawing, wherein Fig. l is a front to rear sectional view middle portion of the tabulator;

Fig. 2 is a right hand side view of the summary punch with many details omitted to clarify the view;

Fig. 3 is a left hand side view of the summary punch, this view also having many details of construction omitted;

Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view of control means partially shown in Fig. 3

Fig. 5 is a front to rear sectional view of the case of the summary punch with the view taken from the right on line approximately through the center of the machine;

Fig. 8 is a front to rear sectional view of the head of the punch on about the same line as Fig. '7 is a fragmentary rear view of the right hand rear corner of the ease of the punch;

8 is an exploded perspective view of a step sector which is shown face view in Fig. 6;

9 is an eniarged sectional view partially the broken away, of the set pin retract mechanism shown also in Fig. 5, the settable portions of this mechanism however being shown in positions dif- 1 erent from those illustrated in the former figure;

Fig. is a fragmentary view from the left of control mechanism located in the head of the punch;

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary front view of part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 10;

Fig. 12 is a fragmentary perspective view from the rear and to the right, of control mechanism located in the head of the punch;

Fig. 13 is a front to rear sectional view-from the left, of the base of the punch, with many parts omitted to clarify the construction of the retract operating mechanism and the misieed mechanism;

Fig. 14 is a partially exploded perspective view from above and to the rear, of other control mechanisms located. at the left hand side of the punch;

Fig. 15 is a general side view of the control unit attached to the left hand side of the tabula tor;

Fig. 16 is a perspective view of the punch control unit situated on the left hand side of the tabulator;

Fig. 1'7 is a fragmentary perspective view of a portion of said control unit that is sectioned away in Fig. 16;

Fig. 18 is a plan sectional view of the control unit actuator;

Fig. 19 is a perspective view from above and to the rear of control mechanism located on the left hand side of the punch;

Fig. 20 is a perspective view of portion of the mechanism shown in Fig. 19 but partially obsoured;

Fig. 21 is a perspective View of another portion of the mechanism shown in Fig. 19 but partially obscured;

Fig. 22 is a compound perspective view of control mechanisms located on the right hand side of the punch and on the left hand side of the tabulator, said machines being illustrated as standing at an angle to one another for the purposes of the view, and

Fig. 23 is the time chart.

In the illustrated instance of the invention the tabulator is constructed substantially the same as that described in the patent of John Mueller, 2,381,361, dated August 7, 1945, except for those changes described in the patent to Frank A. Lopez, and major portions of the punch, and substantially all of the punch control mechanism in the tabulator, are practically the same as described in the Lopez patent. Reference is made, therefore, to said patents for a complete description of the combined tabulator and summary punch to which the improvements of the present invention are applied, many of those parts of the machine are not directly related to the present improvements not being described at all herein, and those parts more closely akin to the improvements being described as briefly as is consistent with a clear disclosure of the invention.

Tcbulator ate with the wheels of said accumulators. The accumulators can be positioned to cooperate with any desired type bars 160, and a grand total accumulator can cooperate with the same type bars we as a total accumulator or not, as desired. The type bars are moved upward by springs, not shown, and are restored to and held in their lowermost or zero positions by a universal restoring bar iii-3 rcciprocated vertically at appropriate times.

Total control means, not shown, are provided for automatically taking a total from the total accumulator Eel after an entire total group of cards have been fed through the machine, and for automatically taking a grand total from the grand total accumulator W2 after an entire grand total set of total groups of cards have been fed through the machine.

Each type bar 596 carries thirty-six types, not shown, whose spacing is one half that of the bar rack teeth. The topmost type is zero followed by a letter, then 1, then a letter, and so on. Thus nine spaces of the rack teeth equal eighteen type spaces, the 9 type being at about the middle-of the bar, and type bars set at numerical values do not rise above about half their maximum stroke. a

Type sensing mechanism Each type bar 96, or at least each one whose setting ever has to be transmitted to the punch, has cooperating therewith a sensing lever I04 (Fig. 1) pivoted at W5 and, when operated, spring rocked counter-clockwise, this movement under such spring pressure being limited by contact of the rear end of said lever with the bottom edge of the type bar. The lever shown in Fig. l is in its initial position, but if the type bar rises to the extent of 1, 3, etc., to 9 units or tooth spaces. the lever can follow it until arrested by the type bar. The lever is in the form of a bell-crank whose downwardly extending arm I06 contacts with the square end of a slide Hi7 which is mounted'and guided in comb plates I08 and I 10. These slides 16? communicate their settings to the punch by Bowden wires. The front end of the slide it? has a head iii to which there is tightly clamped the end of the inner wire H2 of a Bowden H3. The casings of these Bowdens are secured to the plate H0. There is, of course, in the full machine a long series of these Bowdens to the number of 100. Back of the plate I [0 they are suitably curved and extended into a bundle leading through a hol in the tabulator side frame and over to the punch machine. When the latter is in operation, the Bowden wires are placed under spring tension tending to pull the slides lfil toward the rear of the tabulating machine and to cause the levers N14 to move countor-clockwise until each is arrested in some nu meric position by its associate type bar, so that the spring tension tending to rock the sensing levers its comes through the Bowden wires from the punching machine.

The restoring bar H-l for the bell-crank l0 and slides ti l, consists of the bar H4 of a bail having pivoted arms H5. Springs H6 acting on upward extensions N9 of the arms H5, tend to swin the bail counter-clockwise. This restor ing bar is operated by the restoring bar 163 for the type bars themselves. A rearward branch of each pushes upward, by the spring H6, on a plunger ii? engaged by roller H8 on said arm. The plunger ii? is guided in a suitable bracket I26. The upper end of the plunger has a rearward extension I2I with an adjusting screw I22 adapted to engage the restoring bar I03. When the latter rises the plunger follows it for about the first half of its up stroke and until arrested by shoulder I23 on the plunger engaging the bracket I20. The plunger is depressed to operate the restoring bar and restores the sensing lever I04 during the latter half of the down stroke of the restoring bar I03.

The punching machine base The framework comprises a foot piece I35, a base frame comprising a right hand side plate I36 and a left hand side plate I31, each consisting of an ordinary vertical web surrounded by flanges (Figs. 2 and 3) and surmounting said side pieces a frame comprising a right hand upright member I38 and a left hand upright side member I40, each comprising flanged edges of the usual construction. In the base section are a front cam shaft HI and a rear cam shaft I42 (Figs. 2 and 3). These shafts are driven in the usual manner, namely, in the right hand boxlike frame I36 (Fig. 2) is a worm shaft I43 driven from an electric motor by belt I44 and having thereon the usual worms for driving the two shafts MI and I42, and also worms for driving feed roll shafts I45. The worm shaft I43 is controlled by a clutch I45 which is engaged by a spring I41 and is disengaged by a yoke I43 fast on a rock shaft I50, all as is usual in these machines. The controls for this rock shaft I50 will be described hereinafter. The clutch is, of course, opened by rocking said shaft clockwise in Fig. 2.

Summary cards to be punched are fed from a hopper I 5I (Fig. 5) by a picker I52 to feed rolls I53 on shafts I45, which rolls convey it to a card chamber consisting of the space between the perforated die plate I54 and a perforated plate I55 for the punches I56. From this chamber the cards are fed by feed rolls I51 to a receptacle I58 in the usual manner.

The die plate I54 and the guide plate I55 are mounted on a. fixed irregular rectangular shaped casting I60. The punches I56 are guided in the perforated plate I55 and in another plate I6I, secured to the plate I 55. At their upper ends, the punches are headed and pass through a stripper plate I62 which, however, is a movable part not fast on the casting I60.

Set pin unit Above the casting I60 and the punches I55 is mounted a vertically reciprocating set pin. box I63. This box has end castings I64 (Fig. '1) to which are screwed transverse sheet metal plates I68 (Fig. 5) which in turn support the horizontal guide plates of the set pins I65. The set pins work in the usual manner and when one of them is depressed it is locked down by the usual locking slide I66, there being two of these slides for each row of pins, one for the six upper zone pins and the other for the six lower zone pins; and the two are mounted one above the other so as to be separately operable for retracting purposes, all of which will be described hereinafter. This set pin box moves upward in order for its pins to be selectively set and locked down, and then downward when the pins so set force their punches through the card.

The set pin box I63 is reciprocated up and down as follows: The stationary casting I60 has at each end a bulge, bored vertically, to serve as a guide for a reciprocating rod I61 (Fig. 7) which in its upper part is secured to the end casting I64 of the set pin box in the same manner as described in the Lopez patent.

In the machine described in said Lopez patent the rods I61, and, therefore, the set pin box I63, were reciprocated vertically by an eccentric. For reasons to become evident hereinafter, however, in the improved machine of the present invention, said eccentrics are replaced by cams.

Each rod I61 terminates at its bottom in a squared end I10 (Fig. 5) which is secured by bolt and nut I1I, I12 to the upper portion of a cam follower plate I13 (see also Fig. 7) having therein a cutout I14, through which projects the rear cam shaft I42. The plate I13 has pivoted thereon, on a vertical line through the center of shaft I42, 2. pair of follower rollers I15, one above and the other below said cutout, both, however, overlapping the cutout and engaging the periphery of a cam I16 fixed on the shaft I42. Another cam conveniently located on the shaft I 42, and to be more fully described hereinafter has a collar I11 which to prevent front and rear movement of the plate I13 engages finished, vertical guide ways I18 formed on the said plate and projecting into the cutout I14 at either side thereof. The two plates I13 are connected together by a pair of rods I19 secured to the plates at their lower, front and rear corners, said rods serving to fix the relative positions of the lower ends of said plates. As shown, cam I16 has a high portion and a low portion diametrically opposite to one another, so that when one roller I15 is engaged by the high part, the low part engages the other roller. It will be seen, therefore, that when high portion I engages the upper roller I15 the set pin box I63 is in its highest position, and when said high portion engages the lower roller I15 the set pin box is in its lowermost position. When the concentric portions of the cam engage the rollers the set pin box is in its mid position.

The wiring unit, designated generally as I85, is substantially the same as described in the Lopez patent and comprises an enclosed rectangular box. The rear frame plate I86 and the front frame plate I81 of the unit have mounted between them at their upper ends (Fig. 6) a series of rows of plungers I88 adapted to be depressed by gag bars, as will presently be explained. Beneath said plungers are horizontal plates to support the upper ends of the casings of Bowdens I90 whose wires are respectively depressed by the plungers.

In the specific machine illustrated, there are one hundred gag bars corresponding to the one hundred type bars in the tabulator; and there are fifty front to rear offset rows of plungers I88, each row including six plungers controlled by one gag bar and six plunger-s offset to one side to be controlled by the next adjacent gag bar. This in distinction to the Lopez device in which the twelve plungers were in a continuous row.

The Bowolen casings are secured in the same manner at their lower ends (Fig. 5) to two transverse perforated plates. These plates, however, comprise only forty-five columns of front to rear rows of holes corresponding to the columns of the card to be punched.

The lowermost section of the wiring unit includes a guide plate SHI for the upper ends of a series of plungcrs I93 whose lower ends are guided in a bottom plate I83. There is one of the piungers !92 directly beneath each Bowden wire, by it may be depressed. Said plungers are pressed upward by springs I94 whose pressure is communicated through the Bowden wires to the plungers i813 which are thus normall held in their upper positions.

The plungers H92 project beneath the bottom plate I93 of the wiring unit and each of them stands immediately above one of the set pins I65 hereinbefore described. The construction is such that if one of the plungers I88 be depressed by the gag bar, it will set the corresponding set pin I65 which will be held in its depressed or set position as hereinbefore described.

The bottom plate I03 of the wiring unit is extended to form flanges which can be slid from the back of the machine into slots in rail bars 595 (Fig. 7) rigidly mounted on top of the castings I64 of the set pin box so that the wiring unit is secured to and reciprocates up and down with the latter. This whole structure will hereinafter be referred to as the set pin unit.

In the stop or mid position of said unit the plunger-s I88 (Fig. 6) at the top thereof are out of contact with the gag bars and the set pins are not low enough to depress the punches. When the set pin unit moves upward to the upper limit of its motion some of the plungers will be arrested by the gag bars with the result that the corresponding set pins will be set and locked by their locking slides I; and when, thereafter, said unit is moved to its lowermost position, those set pins will push their corresponding punches through the card.

7 Stripper plate The stripper plate I02 is mounted independently of the set pin unit and is independently reciprocated. The stripper plate is screwed to two transverse bars 596 whch are secured at each end to a yoke I09 (Figs. and 7) connected by a reciproating'rod and a short link with a pair of follower levers I97, all as described in the Lopez patent. The follower levers 507 are pivoted at I88 and have a follower roller 200 pressed against a cam 20! on the rear shaft I42 by a spring I99.

As shown by the time chart (Fig. 23) the set pin unit is at its lowest position from about 15 to 25 of cycle, rises to a mid position at about 76, remains in this position till about 141, rises to its highest position and remains there from 195 to 205, then moves downward and remains in a mid position from 246 to 320 and finally moves downward to its lowest position again. Thus, the set pins receive their setting between 190 and 210 of cycle and the punches are pushed through the card between and 30 of the next cycle. The stripper plate, as shown on the time chart, is in its uppermost position from about 80 to 270 of cycle, and reaches its lowermost position at about 304, descending a little ahead of the set pin unit. The stripper plate remains in its lowermost position until about 35 of the following cycle and then rises again, shortly behind the set pin unit.

The mechanism thus far described is substantially identical with that described in the cited patents with the few exception pointed out.

The primary set-up mechanism The Bowdens H3 after emerging from the left hand side of the tabulator (Fig. are passed through a sort of clamp 202 and formed into a cable which extends across into the punching machine.

' The means controlled by said Bowdens for entering the correct numerical amounts into the set pins has been changed radically from that diu" closed in the Lopez patent and can be understood by reference to Fig. 6. In each denominational position there are three slides, viz., a positioning slide 205, a step sector slide 206 and a gag bar 201, the last having gags consisting of projections from its under edge for cooperation with the plungers I88 of the wiring unit hereinbefore described.

The gag bars and certain control mechanism therefor are mounted in a detachable unit comprising large sheet metal side plates 200 (Figs. 2, 3, and 6) having flanged lower edges 2 I0 secured by bolts 2II atop cast brackets 2I2 fastened to the inner faces of the frame pieces I38 and I40 (see also Fig. 11). The plates 208 are interconnected by several cross bars 2 l3, 2 I4, 2 l 5, and 2 I 6 which will be referred to in greater detail hereinafter.

The step sectors 206 and the positioning slides 205 are mounted in a unit comprising sheet metal side plates 2 l5 interconnected by cross bars 2E8, 2H5, 220, 22f, 222 and 223. The side plates 2I5 have their upper edges bent outward to form flanges 224 which are secured by bolts 225 to angle bars 226 fastened on the forward portions of the outer faces of the side plates 200 of the ga bar unit, said side plates 203 having the portions thereof below said angle bars cut away to accommodate the step sector, positioning slide unit. Thus the gag bar unit is mounted atop the main frame work of the machine and the step sector unit is suspended beneath and supported by said gag bar unit.

After reaching the punch, the Bowd-ens fan out upwardly and the casings I I3 thereof are secured to a plate 221 (Fig. 6) fastened tothe under side of cross bar 2l8 of the step sector unit or to a plate 228 secured to the under side of the adjacent cross bar 2 I9, fifty of the casings being secured to the plate 221 and fifty to the plate 228. The inner wires II2 of the Bowdens are secured to off set arms 230 of the positioning slides 205, said arms projecting from the opposite edges of adjacent slides above the bar 2I8 or 2I9. Thus the lateral spacing of the Bowdens and the arms 230 is twice that of the slides themselves. Each slide has a downwardly extending tail 23! guided in grooves 232 in the proximate faces of the bars 2I8 and 2 I9; and at their upper ends, the slides are guided in similar grooves in the proximate faces of the cross bars 220, 22I. Springs 233 serve to tension slides 205 upward, said springs being secured at their upper ends to cross members 234 and at their lower ends to suitable fingers of the arms 230 of the slides.

The step sectors 206 have downwardly extending tails 229 also guided in the grooves in the bars 220 and 22I, so that each step sector has located there beneath a positioning slide 205 by which'it can be raised to the several numerical positions 1-9. At their upper ends the step sectors are guided in grooves in the proximate faces of the cross bars 222, 223.

The construction is such that if a slide 205 be moved upward by its spring 233, it will draw after it the wire I I2, which in the tabulator (Fig. 1) draws one of the slides I0! toward the rear of the machine, swinging the bell-crank I04 counterclockwise until arrested by the bottom of the type bar in some numeric position. The upward motion of the slide 205 and, therefore, of the step sector 206 will, therefore, be limited to some one of ten positions appropriate to the numerals 0-9.

The step sectors 205 are each in front to rear alignment with a gag bar 201, and above the tail portion 229 thereof, each has its rear edge inclined rearwardly so that the upper end of the sector is considerably wider from front to rear, than is the tail 229. Ten steps 235 representing from top to bottom, the numerals -9, are out in said inclined edge, said steps forming stops to arrest the advance movement of the associated gag bar in the appropriate numeric positions.

The step sectors preferably areprovided with cutouts 235 to decrease their weight, and the stepped edge of each preferably has secured thereto a similarly stepped metal strip 231 (see also Fig. 8) whose purpose it is to widen and bolster the steps, or stops 235.

A restoring bar 238, to be described more in *detail hereinafter, is provided for restoring the step sectors to their lowermost or zero positions wherein the bottom of the 3 step 235 limits on a shelf of the cross bar 2 I6.

The gag bars have been modified somewhat from those described in the Lopez patent, but the manner in which they operate the plungers I88 is unchanged; and, as in the Lopez machine, the gag bars are, to provide room for operating springs and the like, of two types interspersed one with the other, the one type being indicated at 201A (Fig. 6) and the other at 231B.

Allof the gag bars are guided for front to rear sliding movements in comb plates 240, and 24! secured to the cross bars 2 I 3 and 2 I5, respectively, and in grooves in the bar 2I6, one gag bar to each groove or comb slot rather than two as in the Lopez device. Further guidance is provided by comb plates 242 and 243 which are secured to the cross bar 2 I4 and engage upstanding fingers 244 of the B and A gag bars, respectively.

The gag bars are advanced into engagement with the steps 235 of the step sectors 206 by springs 245 and 246, the former serving the A. set of gag bars and the latter the B set. The gag bars are restored to, and are normally held in their rearmost positions by a restoring bar 241 which acts on projections 243 from the undersides of the gag bars. When at the appropriate time this restoring bar moves leftward in Fig. 6, the gag bars follow it under impulse of their springs245 or 246 until arrested in the appropriate' numerical positions by the step sectors. Normally, however, each gag bar is locked against such movement by a latch 250. At each operation of the machine these latches are released selectively by control mechanism to be described hereinafter, so that only those gag bars advance that are required in that operation.

Each of the gag bars has depending therefrom a long finger 25! and three shorter fingers 252 which cooperate with the plungers I88 in the top of the wiring unit hereinbefore described. In Fig. 6 the gag bars are shown in normal position with the fingers of the A gag bar located, so as, when set to numerical positions, to act on the lefthand or forward six of the plungers I88, and the fingers of the B bar located to cooperate with the rightward or rearmost offset six of the plungers. .JI'his is one of the difierences between the A and B gag bars, and is the reason for offsetting the rows of plungers.

The 'm d p1 g ers I88, that is, the second, third, fourth and fifth plungers from the right of each set of six, each has its upper end wide enough so that it may be depressed either when a. finger 25! of the gag bar is over the right hand half of it to punch said positioning slides.

an odd number, or over the left hand half of it to punch an even number, and the nine plunger has its right hand half of the same height as the other plungers but its left hand half is prolonged upward into a finger 253 long enough to be depressed by any one of the three gag bar fingers 252 when the gag bar is set at an even numher position. When the bar is set at one, the left hand finger 252 stands over the right hand half of the nine plunger and does not operate the latter, but when the bar is set one step further leftward then this finger 252 will depress the nine plunger while the finger 25! depresses the one plunger, and so on. Extending leftward from the finger 25! is a shoulder 254 in line with the fingers 252, and the left hand portion of this shoulder constitutes in effect a fourth finger 252 which depressed the nine plunger when the gag bar is set at eight. When the gag bar is set at nine the finger 25! stands over the right hand half of the nine plunger I88 and almost in contact with the finger 253. The zero plunger I88 has only its left hand half projecting above the top of the wiring unit so that the portion of that acted on by the finger 25! is a comparatively slender finger. When a gag bar is set at zero this finger stands under the right hand half of finger 25! as viewed in the drawing. It will be noted in Fig. 6 that when a gag bar is in its normal position no zero will be punched, but the bar must be drawn leftward to the position just above described in order to punch a zero. The construction lends itself to the punching of zeros or not, as desired, means to which end will be described hereinafter.

Restoring the step sectiors The restoring bar 238 for the step sectors is reciprocated by a cam 26:) on the front drive shaft 24! of the machine (Fig. 2). A follower roller 2 e: for said cam is mounted between the two arms of a follower lever 232 which is pivoted on a stud 263 and has its free end pivotally connected to a long upwardly extending link 264 tensioned downward by a strong spring 235. At its upper end link 265 is connected with an arm 256 fast on a shaft 251 journaled in hubs secured to the side plate 268 of the gag bar unit and also in a bracket 268 secured atop the right hand upright frame member I38. Secured on the shaft 261 within the side plates 238 (Fig. 6) is a pair of arms 216 each having at its free end a slot 21! which embraces a roller 212 on a pin 213 extending across a slot in the restoring bar 238. At each end the restoring bar is slidably mounted between upright bars 214 secured to the side plates 208 so that the motion of the restoring bar is straight up" and down, the slots 2' riding back and forth on the rollers 212. The timing of cam 250, and, therefore, of the restoring bar 238, is shown on the time chart (Fig. 23).

It will be noted that the step sectors 206 are pushed upward to their set positions by the positioning slides 205, but are not connected with Means are, therefore, provided to prevent overthrow of the step sectors past their set positions.

Two channel brackets 216 are secured one to the rear and the other to the front face of the step sector restoring bar 238, and each carries a series of shouldered pins 211 pressed downward each by a spring 218 against the upper edge of a step sector 266. The pins 2'11 in each bracket cooperate with alternate step sectors. The operation is as follows: Referring to the time chart,

11 Y it will be seen that when at 38 of punch cycle the restoring bar 238 begins to rise, the type bars in the tabulator have already risen more than half the distance to their 9 positions, so that the springs 233 are tensioning the positioning slides 205 (Fig. 6) against the step sectors 206. Therefore, during the rise of restoring bar 238 the springs 218 of the pins 27'! are maintained compressed each by the associated step sector until the related positioning slide is halted in its rise by its tabulator type bar, at which time the spring 218 begins to expand and acts to prevent further upward motion of the step sector. When the restoring bar reaches its uppermost position, the fully expanded springs 218 maintain the lower edges of the pins 211, each just above the upper edge of the related step sector if the latter is set in its highest or 9 position.

Zero punching In order that zeroes can be punched or not as desired, each of the step sectors 286 has associated with its zero stop 235, means settable effective and ineffective to prevent the cooperating gag bar 2st from being set in its zero position. To this end the zero stop 235 of each step sector is extended upward (Figs. 6 and 8) and has aligned therewith the forward edge of a vertical groove 289 out in the upper rearward corner of the step sector and formed into a slot by a thin metal plate 28| riveted to the side of the step sector. Mounted in this slot is a zero blocking interponent 282 whose forward edge abuts the zero stop 235 and which is settable to two positions, namely, an upper ineffective position and a lower effective position. The interponent is set by means of a finger piece 283 and is held in its set position by an extrusion 284 of plate 28I engaging in one or the other of a pair of vertically spaced holes 2% in the interponent. The interponent is limited to movements between its effective and ineffective positions by a shoulder 2l5 thereof which engages the upper edge of the step sector, and by lateral ridges 219 formed by increasing the thickness of the lower end of the interponent, and engaging the underlip of slot 280. The thickened lower portion of the interponent is provided with a step 289 which, when the interponent is set effective, is interposed between the gag bar and the zero stop 235 of the step sector but when the interponent is set in its ineffective position is raised above the gag bar.

- It will be seen, therefore, that if the interponent is set effective and the step sector remains in zero position, the stop 289 prevents advance of the gag bar to zero position. However, if the step sector is raised to one of the numeric positions 1-9, the step 289 moves out of the path of the gag bar and the latter advances into contact with the appropriate stop 235. If the interponent is set in its ineifective position, the step 289 is moved out of the path of the gag bar and the latter is free to advance to zero position.

It is to be mentioned that in order to facilitate manipulation thereof the interponent finger pieces 283 are arranged in front and rear rows, one piece being in the front row and the next adjacent piece in the rear row.

Restoring the gag bars The restoring bar 241 for the gag bars 297 is reciprocated by a pair of cams 286 (Figs. 2 and 3) on the front power shaft MI, one at either side of the machine. A follower roller 28! for each said cam is mounted between the two parallelarms of a follower lever 288 pivoted on the stud 263 there being enact the latter projecting from each base frame piece l35 and I37. Said follower lever is connected by a long link 29! with a bellcrank 295 fast on a shaft 292 journaled in the side frames I38 and M0. The restoring bar 24'! extends clear through both the right and left frame castings and at each end it has secured thereto a block 293, to which is pivoted a link 294 which is also pivoted to the upright arm of the bell-crank 295 on the shaft 292. The cams 286 move the bar 241 rearward, and the latter is moved frontward by springs 256. The bar 241 is guided between two guide bars, bolted to the inside faces of plates 208. The timing of cam 286 and, therefore, of the restorting bar 241 is indicated on the time chart (Fig. 23). Referring to the time chart and to Fig. 1 the type bars are restored from 9 to normal positions from around 23 of tab cycle and the reading levers I04 and Bowden wires H2 are also restored pulling the Bowdens back away from the punch (Fig. 6). The step sectors 2% cannot return to normal at this time because they are held up by the gag bars 20! engaging the steps of the sectors. These gag bars cannot return to normal position at that time (some 200 of punch cycle) because the set pin unit is at that moment above mid-position taking a reading from the gag bars. In short, at the time when the bowdens are pulled back by the tabulator, the step sectors are unable to follow them. It is for this reason mainly that the positioning slides 235 are made separate from the step sectors. They are so arranged that when taking a reading from the type bars, the positioning slides push the step sectors up to their several numerical positions where they are held against descending by the gag bars; but when on the restoration of the type bars the Bowdens are pulled down, the positioning slides are free to follow them leaving the step sectors in set positions. As shown on the time chart the wiring and set pin unit is restored to mid position around 256 and it is then that the restoring bars for the gag bars and the step sectors begin to restore those parts to normal. The set pin unit is above normal position from about 141 to 256 and during that period the gag bars and step sectors are stationary in their set positions.

This device greatly reduces the time required for the various operations without causing any conflict between the movements of the type bars and of their co-operating parts in the punch.

In the patent to Rindfieish, No. 2,354,549, July 25, 1944, there is described a combined tabulator and summary punch having step sectors which are set differentially by reading or sensing fingers which sense the type bars; and gag bars are set against the step sectors. That machine presented the same problem of timing as the present machine, viz., that the type bars must go on with their movements for some time while the step sectors and the gag bars must remain stationary in order to perform their functions; but in the patented machine this end is achieved by entirely different means, working on a different principle. In that machine the feeling fingers are connected directly with the step sectors and move with them in both directions. The prior mechanism is described also in the earlier Patent No. 1,998,281. l

Releasing the gay bars The means for tripping the latches 250, which 

